Alexander Korda
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
3) I, Claudius
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of Robert Graves' version of the times of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Claudius told through the dying Claudius as he sets down the history of his family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 487
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century. Emma Hart is a beautiful dance hall girl who is sent by her latest lover to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Sir William considers Emma a rare piece of art he must possess. Sir William introduces Emma to Naples' elite society and she soon marries him. Later, Horatio Nelson, a famous English Naval office arrives. Soon, a scandalous,...
5) Rembrandt
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In Amsterdam of 1642, master painter Rembrandt Van Rijn enjoys a full life until the sudden death of his wife. Bankrupt and bereft, he finds comfort in a pretty servant in his home. Can he summon the courage to overcome his demons or will tragedy continue to haunt him?
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of King Henry VIII and his six marriages; Catherine II ascends to the throne as Empress of Russia in eighteenth-century St. Petersburg; after faking his death and escaping Seville, an aging Don Juan returns to find he has been forgotten; dramatizes the life and work of Dutch painter Rembrandt.
Series
Criterion collection volume 431
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Special edition ; Fullscreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Prince Ahmad joins forces with the thief Abu to win back his royal position from the nefarious Jaffar, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The original and grandest version of this well-known tale paints an exotic world of primitive peasant villages, dense, dark jungles, and alluring lagoons--all of which compose the surroundings of Mowgli (Sabu), a boy raised by wolves. Although Mowgli loves his world and is able to communicate with his animal companions, somewhere within himself he harbors a longing to return to his human roots and to the village of his birth. Once there, however,...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-Ray edition.
Language
English
Description
Adaptations of A.E.W. Masons classic 1902 adventure novel about the British Empires exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of Alexander Korda's legendary production company, London Films. Set at the end of the nineteenth century, follows the travails of a young officer accused of cowardice after he resigns his post on the eve of a major deployment to Khartoum; he must fight to redeem himself in the eyes of his fellow officers.
Series
Criterion collection volume 670
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
Series
Criterion collection volume 583
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
With cannon fire igniting the North African skies, the British cavalry charges into battle to capture the strategic city of Khartoum. In the midst of the devastating carnage, a horrified officer resigns from his post. But he soon finds his shame is greater than his fear, and he returns to save his honor - and the friends he betrayed - at any cost.
Series
Criterion collection volume 670
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Two-DVD special ed.
Language
English
Description
As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
18) Things to come
Series
Criterion collection volume 660
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Takes the viewer on a hundred-year time trip to 2036 A.D. when a man and a woman are rocketed to the moon.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sanders of the river: Commissioner Sanders, representative of the British Crown, puts down a bloody rebellion and re-establishes harmony for the pro-British river people in this tale of adventure in Nigeria. Jericho: An African American soldier flees to the African desert during WWI after he accidentally causes the death of his sergeant and is sentenced to death for murder. True pioneer: In 1928, Paul Robeson moved to Londan and during the next...
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